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Life along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century is revisited in "Big River." This 1985 Broadway musical, whose seven Tony Awards included Best Musical, agreeably flows along in the Silhouette Stage's production at Slayton House Theater.

Columbia Digest

Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia has always been a regional treasure for theatergoers, but the current production of "Memphis: The Musical" proves that no smash hit is too big for Toby's to produce with pizazz..

If you visit "Memphis" at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, you'll be going back to a time in the 1950s when racial integration and R&B music were intertwined subjects that made many establishment types uneasy.

Vibrant touring production of imaginative musical based on hit indie film 'Once' makes Baltimore debut.

Hit indie film 'Once' inspires a hit stage musical, which is coming to the Hippodrome in Baltimore.

The Woodlawn High grad long ago reached the top of the music industry. Now he's making moves to expand his ventures globally

Edwin Cohen, a retired city and university educator who served as executive director of Camps Airy and Louise, died June 21 of complications following surgery at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown. He was 87.

Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress" and as the author of the body-shifting book "Freaky Friday," has died. She was 83.

Sasha Allen, finalist on 'The Voice,' and Tony-winning John Rubinstein will be in touring production of Broadway musical 'Pippin' that plays Baltimore in 2015.

It's doubtful anyone attending Colonial Players 65th season closer would react with "been there, done that" to playwright Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone."

Infinity Theatre Company opened its fifth season this month in Annapolis with "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," another professional production solidifying the company's reputation as the summer destination of savvy fans seeking the best in local musical theater.

"Sister Act" opens June 4 and runs through June 15 at the Hippodrome, 12 N. Eutaw St.

Comedy deals with love, grieving, sexuality

Craig Copeland, a 44-year-old teacher at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, was voted by Men in Blazers listeners as the winning U.S. Soccer World Cup theme song for his version of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music."

For many people, summer arrives in Annapolis at the opening of Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre — which usually coincides with the U.S. Naval Academy commissioning week. That tradition continued last week, as the troupe debuted its 49th season under the stars by celebrating the quintessential American art form of the Broadway musical, with "42nd Street."

Weren't we terrible for allowing the AIDS epidemic to go unchecked for so long in New York in the 1980s? It's a question HBO's new film "The Normal Heart" will make you consider. Are we terrible now for not doing more to stop it worldwide?

HIV/AIDS film 'Normal Heart' will do something to you that TV rarely does: rock you to your emotional roots.

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Columbia Digest

The vibrant national touring production of the hit Broadway play, which offers an imaginative prequel to the Peter Pan story, reached the Hippodrome in Baltimore this week.

Dressed in skinny jeans, flats, a white shirt and still wearing her stage makeup, the petite Ashley Blair Fitzgerald sits cross-legged in a small conference room after her matinee performance in "Smokey Joe's Cafe" at Arena Stage in Washington.

When the curtain goes up on "Curtains" for a two-weekend run starting this Friday, May 16, at 8 p.m., Silhouette Stages will have brought yet another musical to the stage at Slayton House Theatre.

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Peter Pan prequel by Rick Elice, based on Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson book , brings its inventive theatricality to Baltimore's Hippodrome as part of national touring production.

Christopher Durang's play, full of Chekhov allusions, is a co-production with Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

Columbia Digest

Columbia Digest

"Cinderella," the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, the creators of "South Pacific" and "The Sound of Music," is coming to the Reservoir High School stage.

If great theater is your thing, Arena Stage is the place to be. The Southwest Washington, D.C., theater has been on a roll this season, with exceptional plays that covered a broad range of subjects, featuring well-known cast members.

Karl, Seibert appear in musical adaptation of Stallone's Philadelphia boxing film

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'Book of Mormon' arrives at Hippodrome in Baltimore.

Tickets will be sold by lottery, with drawings two hours before performance time, throughout hit show's run at the Hippodrome.

In 'House of Cards,' Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon bring power of live theater to screen like no series in TV history.

Talk about the magic of television. HBO's "Veep" won an Art Directors Guild Award over the weekend for a most impressive act of TV transformation.

Toby's offering of "Spamalot" is a polished, professional, fun-filled production. The in-the-round setting brings audiences almost within touching distance of the action.

Hit play 'War Horse' uses puppetry to bring tale of a boy and his horse to life at the Hippodrome.

Tony-winners "Once," "Newsies" and "Pippin" among the musicals being featured in Broadway Across America's 2014-15 season at the Hippodrome in Baltimore.

The new year is bursting forth with intriguing theater productions spanning a wide range of genres. Five local shows are opening on the same date, Jan. 10, with another debuting on Jan. 17.

Center Stage has postponed a production of a Naomi Wallace play that was to have opened in April, replacing it with Christopher Durang's Tony-winning "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."

The Tidewater Players celebrates1960s Baltimore — big hair, the Buddy Deane dance show, and integration — in their production of "Hairspray."

How successful is Colonial Players' current production of "Annie?" Well, after the first weekend, available seats for this heart-warming family-friendly show were all but sold out — including a recently added matinee performance on Sunday, Dec. 8.